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October 2026

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28 DAWN FALL '26 16:00 · Hackathon From Silicon Valley to Helsinki: What Finnish Founders Learned in the AI Capital 17:00 Clair Founder Story 18:00
29 FiBAN Startup Clinic with Danske Bank 09:30 · Workshop Espoo Growth Secrets workshop 29.9.2026 10:00 VERGE | Deep Tech: Beyond the Screen. Into the Bedrock. - HELSINKI 13:00 AI in Finance - The Future of Work 17:00 Co-Founder Curious 17:30 Prompt Workshop 6: Building Agents for Studies 18:00
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1 Hamina Wireless: Atypical Founder & AI Story 18:00 · Meetup
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3 Founders Running Club :: Helsinki 10:00 · Meetup RoboSauna - Aalto Robotics Club 16:00
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7 Builders' Breakfast with Jarna Hyvönen: How to Sell Deep Tech Before It Exists, Lessons from Volare 08:30 · Dinner n8n AI Meetup Helsinki 16:30 Vibe Coding Finland: October meetup with Antilooppi at VERK 17:30 Product Design in the AI Era 18:00 Haskell Office Hours 19:00
8 Building in the Real World: Discussion w/ David Helgason (ex-CEO Unity, Partner at Transition VC) 15:15 · Meetup DAWN Demo Night 18:00
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10 Founders Running Club :: Helsinki 10:00 · Meetup
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13 FiBAN special edition Screening Board with Business Helsinki: Funding Readiness Bootcamp 09:30 · Pitch
14 Find Your Cofounder 17:00 · Meetup Thinkin'Rocks: Build Your Own Smart Ring w/ Sens Wear 18:00
15 Building Physical AI 17:45 · Meetup From Startup Idea to Live Cloud Service 18:00
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17 Founders Running Club :: Helsinki 10:00 · Meetup
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19 Upright Project Founder Story 18:00 · Meetup
20 Lypsylehmät ja yksisarviset 12:30 · Meetup Navigating Male-Dominated Environments: Roundtable 16:00 Founder Funding 1: How does fundraising work in hardware startups? 18:00
21 100STARTUPS with FiBAN - Pitching Event 11:30 · Pitch Prompt X Luo Build Night: Agents for Operations 17:00
22 Prompt Talks 2: Understanding the Quantum AI Business 18:00 · Meetup
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27 Grok Bot Breakfast & Build Helsinki 09:00 · Workshop Co-founder Matchmaking Helsinki 17:00
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30 Dealing with Investors - Fall 26 14:30 · Pitch
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About Helsinki · October 2026

November is the whole story in Helsinki, with Junction and Slush stacked back to back. Junction on Nov 13 puts about 2,000 builders in Hype Areena for 48 hours of AI, hardware and fintech tracks. Slush on Nov 18 brings roughly 6,000 startups and 3,500 investors, with pre-booked matchmaking worth booking before you land. Before that, the Aaltoes Prompt Operations Hackathon runs Oct 24, and Startuplab hosts a Slush dinner on Nov 18.

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